In late May 2004, thanks in part to the vigilance of several outside readers who phoned in, we discovered that some person or persons had tampered with this feature's tally. Specifically, on May 16-17 ...

Suggested Reading/Additional Resources. Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill. 1998. Language Myths. London & New York: Penguin Books. (A collection of useful and easily understood articles, each dealing ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming children ...

In most bilingual communities (regardless of the languages involved) there is also a third choice: code-switching, the alternating use of both languages, often within a single sentence or phrase, as ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under the New Deal? WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

New River Media Interview with: William Cronon Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin ...

Wright brothers fly first motorized plane 1903. Photo: Wright Brothers' first flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his ...

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN United States Senator (D-NY) QUESTION: I wonder if we could begin with a short autobiography from you? Let's take it from birth to the end of your career in the U.S. Navy.

New River Media Interview with: Bruce Geelhoed Director, Center for Middletown Studies and Professor of History Ball State University . QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about when Robert and Helen Lynd ...